WO2004036362A2 - Compression de contenu securise - Google Patents

Compression de contenu securise

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WO2004036362A2
WO2004036362A2 PCT/US2003/032598 US0332598W WO2004036362A2 WO 2004036362 A2 WO2004036362 A2 WO 2004036362A2 US 0332598 W US0332598 W US 0332598W WO 2004036362 A2 WO2004036362 A2 WO 2004036362A2
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compression
recited
encrypted information
request
compressed
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Brian Metzger
Venkitachalam Gopalakrishnan
Alan Frindell
Thomas Fountain
Sanjay Beri
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Ingrian Networks, Inc.
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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L9/00—Cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for secret or secure communications; Network security protocols
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04N—PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION
    • H04N19/00—Methods or arrangements for coding, decoding, compressing or decompressing digital video signals
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L2209/00—Additional information or applications relating to cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for secret or secure communication H04L9/00
    • H04L2209/30—Compression, e.g. Merkle-Damgard construction
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L2209/00—Additional information or applications relating to cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for secret or secure communication H04L9/00
    • H04L2209/60—Digital content management, e.g. content distribution
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H04—ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
    • H04L—TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION
    • H04L2209/00—Additional information or applications relating to cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for secret or secure communication H04L9/00
    • H04L2209/76—Proxy, i.e. using intermediary entity to perform cryptographic operations

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  • This invention relates to secure content and, more specifically, to compression of secure content.
  • compression products and related functionality do not allow for content to be secured (encrypted) during the entire time that the content is transported through the network. This is because most compression products are unable to interpret the encrypted content. In order to determine if the content can be compressed, the compression product needs to interpret the encrypted content. Most compression products are able to interpret content only when the content is unencrypted, i.e., not secure.
  • FIG. 1 is a block diagram that illustrates a high-level network diagram showing aspects of a computerized environment in which the compression of secure content can be performed, according to certain embodiments.
  • FIG. 2 is a block diagram that illustrates some of the components typically incorporated in at least some of the computer systems and other devices on which the facility executes.
  • FIG. 3 is a flow chart that illustrates some of steps that the facility performs, according to certain embodiments.
  • FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a CSE graphical user interface (GUI), according to certain embodiments of the invention.
  • GUI graphical user interface
  • a facility for dynamically compressing secure information, i.e., encrypted information or content, before the secure information is transported to the client that is requesting the encrypted information is described.
  • secure information i.e., encrypted information or content
  • a software implementation of the facility is described.
  • the facility may be a software implementation, or a hardware implementation, or a combination thereof and may vary from implementation to implementation.
  • the current embodiments are not restricted to any particular implementation.
  • the facility includes a proxy server, a cryptographic engine, and a compression service engine.
  • the compression service engine in collaboration with the cryptographic engine, is configurable to interpret a request for encrypted information as well as the response to the request. The purpose of such an interpretation includes determining whether: 1) the client that sent the request is capable of accepting compressed encrypted information, and 2) the type and level of compression to apply to the encrypted information, if the client is capable of accepting compressed encrypted information. If a copy of the encrypted information is already stored in a proxy cache, then the encrypted information is retrieved from the proxy cache for serving to the client, rather than requesting the encrypted information from a back-end server.
  • T 1(3 ' . ' I ' ' a h' ⁇ gh ' -leveTbTock diagram that illustrates aspects of a computerized environment 100 in which the compression of secure content can be performed, according to certain embodiments.
  • FIG. 1 shows a plurality of clients 102a-102n, a network 104, a proxy server 106 and a back-end server 108. There may be more than one back-end server.
  • compression of secure content is performed with the aid of one or more other computer systems, such as proxy server 106.
  • Components of the facility may reside on and/or execute on any combination of these computer systems, and intermediate results from the compression may similarly reside on any combination of these computer systems.
  • the facility includes a proxy server, an encryption/decryption service engine (cryptographic engine) and a compression service engine (CSE).
  • the facility may be embodied in a single device or distributed among various devices. For embodiments that include hardware implementations, suitable hardware interfaces are used for the CSE.
  • the computer systems 100 shown in FIG. 1 are connected via network 104, which may use a variety of different networking technologies, including wired, guided or line-of-sight optical, and radio frequency networking.
  • the network includes the public switched telephone network.
  • Network connections established via the network may be fully-persistent, session-based, or intermittent, such as packet-based. While the facility typically operates in an environment such as is shown in FIG. 1 and described above, those skilled in the art will appreciate the facility may also operate in a wide variety of other environments.
  • communication between any of clients 102a-102n and back-end server 108 is through secure communication links using a secure protocol.
  • FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing some of the components typically incorporated in at least some of the computer systems and other devices on which the facility executes, including some or all of the server and client computer systems shown in FIG. 1.
  • These computer systems and devices 200 may include one or more central processing units ("CPUs") 201 for executing computer programs; a computer memory 202 for storing programs and data - including data structures -- while they are being used; a persistent storage device 203, such as a hard drive, for persistently storing programs and data; a computer-readable media drive 204, such as a CD-ROM drive, for reading programs and data stored on a computer-readable medium; and a network connection 205 for connecting the computer system to other computer systems, such as via the Internet, to exchange programs and/or data - including data structures. While computer systems configured as described above are typically used to support the operation of the facility, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the facility may be implemented using devices of various types and configurations, and having various components.
  • Clients and servers exchange sensitive data (secure content) by encrypting the data before transmission through the network.
  • bandwidth and latency constraints are of concern.
  • bandwidth is expressed as the number of bits of data per sec (bps). If the bandwidth is not wide enough to support the amount of data that is being relayed at the speed the data is being processed, then a bottleneck occurs. Bottlenecks have adverse effects on latency because bottlenecks increase the amount of time it takes for a data packet to travel from the packet's source to the packet's destination.
  • FIG. 3 is a flow chart that illustrates some of steps of a procedure 300 that the facility performs, according to certain embodiments.
  • the request is first decrypted, if the request is encrypted.
  • the requesting can accept compressed data if the request contains an "Accept-Encoding: gzip" header, for example.
  • a proxy server that can employ an encryption/decryption service engine to decrypt both the request and the response is used.
  • procedure 300 arrives at block 304 where the requested data is retrieved and sent to the requesting client in uncompressed form. Some older versions of client browsers are unable to accept compressed data.
  • procedure 300 arrives at block 306 where it is determined whether the requested data is stored in the cache. If the requested data is not already in the cache, then at block 308, the proxy server makes a request for the data from the back-end server. If the requested data is already stored in the cache, then at block 310, the proxy server retrieves the requested data from the cache.
  • the requested data is decrypted and examined to determine the desired type and level of compression.
  • the desired type of compression may either be a gzip compression or a GIF compression, for example.
  • the level of compression is the percentage by which images can be compressed.
  • the CSE With gzip compression enabled, the CSE will compress the response if: 1) the request contains an Accept-Encoding: gzip header, and 2) the response does ' NOT contain a Content-Encoding header.
  • GIF compression enabled the CSE will scale down GIF images according to a user specified level of compression or quality factor. Each image can be decoded, and a reduction algorithm can be applied. Next, the image can be re-encoded.
  • the type of image reduction algorithm may vary form implementation to implementation.
  • the proxy server will simply serve the desired compressed data object to the requesting client. If the desired compressed data object is not in the cache, then at block 318 the CSE is called upon to apply the appropriate compression technique to compress the requested data at the desired level of compression. It is further assumed that the proxy server and associated CSE can interface with third party libraries to perform the actual content compression and image reduction. Such libraries may or not be free, require license fees, etc. The performance of the proxy server and associated CSE is related to the performance of such libraries.
  • the CSE can leverage third party libraries to perform the actual compression.
  • gzip compression can be performed by zlib, and the GIF compression by giflib.
  • Gif Compression a modified version of GIFSICLE in a library form can be used.
  • a secure tunnel is maintained for the transport of the compressed data object to the requesting client.
  • the compression of the requested secure content results in improved response time and in a decreased amount of bandwidth that is needed to transport the compressed secure content.
  • Compression is a processor intensive activity.
  • a user configurable compression level will control the size of the compressed data object versus the performance impact.
  • the proxy server may make an intelligent choice not to compress the data if the processor is heavily loaded at the time of satisfying the request. If the requested data is suitable for caching, the proxy server will cause a copy of the requested data to be compressed at a later time when the processor is less busy. The resulting compressed data object is then stored in the cache for purposes of satisfying future requests for such secure content.
  • the cache is capable of distinguishing data objects by Content Encoding. This will prevent gzipped objects from being served to clients that did not send an "Accept-Encoding: gzip" header.
  • the quality factor will be part of the cache lookup for a GIF to prevent other forwarding rules from accessing compressed (ie: reduced quality) GIF images.
  • a particular forwarding rule may be such that it allows reduced quality images to be sent as a response if it is known that the client browser, such as a PDA browser for example, has little ability to appreciate high quality images.
  • the first client to request a compressed image may receive the original image. This will start the reduction process in the background, eventually placing the compressed image in the cache for future use.
  • clients accept plain encoded objects.
  • a given client may be served a plain encoded object even though such a client can accept compressed content.
  • An older browser makes a request for 7index.html" and does not send an "Accept-Encoding: gzip" header.
  • the plain object is stored in the cache.
  • a modern browser requests the same object but does send the Accept-Encoding: gzip header. Since the modern browser implicitly accepts plain encodings, the plain copy from the cache is served to the modern browser, rather than compressing the requested object and sending the compressed object to the modern browser.
  • the module informs the cache that the CSE is attached and the above scenario is treated as a cache miss.
  • a cache setting is added wherein the cache setting allows the administrator to specify that the backend server is performing the compression, so that plain encoding hits can be treated as missed on those forwarding rules as well.
  • the compression service engine can be configured to selectively compress secure content. As previously explained, some clients may not accept compressed content while other clients may accept compressed content.
  • the compression service engine can be configured to select for compression, only the secure content that is destined for clients that will accept compressed content. Furthermore, different compression algorithms may be selected based on the characteristics of the content being served.
  • the proxy server and the associated compression service engine can be configured by administrators who have knowledge of: 1) the type of content served through such a proxy server, and 2) the web server environment.
  • the compression service engine is configurable using a plurality of profiles. Each profile defines a different configuration. Profiles are described in greater detail herein with reference to FiG. 4.
  • the proxy server uses a set a forwarding rules to determine how incoming requests from client browsers are to be treated.
  • Service engine filters are filters that allow a user to specify conditions that need to be satisfied for a CSE to process a request or response.
  • a CSE and a filter are attached to each forwarding rule.
  • an administrator wishes to enable or disable the CSE based on the content type or User-Agent headers (or any other HTTP headers)
  • the administrator can create an appropriate service engine filter. For example, if a particular user agent has a bug which causes it to send an "Accept-Encoding: gzip" header when it does not in fact support gzip, a service engine filter can be used to disable the module for this agent.
  • the same method can be used to restrict compression to objects that have Content- Type: text/*, etc. The following steps may be followed: Create a new profile with the desired compression levels. Create a response filter to control what content will be compressed. Attach the profile and filter to the forwarding rule.
  • FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a CSE graphical user interface (GUI), according to certain embodiments of the invention.
  • CSE user interface 400 comprises a profile list 402.
  • Profile list 402 contains a list of existing profiles (compression profiles) as indicated by profile name 404.
  • CSE GUI 400 also comprises a "create profile" section such as create profile 408.
  • Each profile will have a properties page where the attributes of the profile can be viewed or modified. The properties page can be accessed by selecting the properties button 406.
  • Each profile of the CSE may include the following configurable attributes: Profile Name 410 - name by which this profile is referred to by forwarding rules. Log Level 412 - how much information should be logged. Enable gzip Compression 414 - true if this profile performs gzip compression, gzip Compression Level 416 - integer level of speed versus size. 1 fastest largest - 9 slowest/smallest.
  • GIF Compression 418 true if this profile performs GIF compression.
  • GIF Compression Level 420 user defined quality factor. The user will be able to set a specific number of colors to reduce to or a percentage to reduce colors by. Also, the user will be able to select from different compression algorithms, and will be able to select different algorithms for color and grayscale images.
  • a check box per-forwarding rule, for example
  • the proxy may need to be restarted. If image compression is performed in a separate process, such a process may also need to be restarted.

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Abstract

Selon l'invention, la réponse codée à une requête est d'abord décodée afin de déterminer le type et le taux de compression pouvant être appliqués à la réponse. La réponse est ensuite compressée et codée afin de satisfaire à la requête.
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